Skoozeme, Skoozeme

What this is

This is the index for a collection of webpages hosted at the skoozeme website. This index.html page is generally a
key for search engines (as is robots.txt), but also lists most of the pages on
this website for human readers.

This is primarily a non-commercial website, so things like admin and other role
addresses are not maintained. I expect to add a Formmail page soon, so
people can email me. (If this takes a while, I will post a javascript email
page, which should be fairly safe from spambots for the short term. Either
way, I will attempt to be reachable.

Most of these pages are put up by Stan Protigal, but I will occasionally
also host other pages. I will also mirror pages from elsewhere that may be
taken down for one reason or another.

Current Status

This website is mostly rebuilt in in May-2018, with some exceptions, and
moved to the skoozeme.com domain.

... Which pretty much changed the response on
telemarketing calls from "just hang up" to "Don't hang up". At the
time, telemarketing calls to landlines were becoming a significant scouge.
Several of the concepts on Telemarketing Scum were included in US and
international telemarketing laws. At present, illegal callers still have to
deal with victims keeping them on the line as long as possible, and in
response, need to hang up on their marks and otherwise cut into their profit
potential.

Why Skoozeme?

The Washington (D.C.) subway
system ("Metro") has encouraged its patrons to turn rudeness and
shoving into an art form; hence the system's motto "Skoozeme,
Skoozeme".

(The word "skoozeme" is a corruption of "excuse me".
The expression is heard as, "skoozeme ... skoozeme.")

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

This is the "criminal process" webpage, which I wrote after seeing
prisoners pressured into confessing to crimes they didn't commit. As mentioned
in the article, if both a crime and a suspect are identified, confessions
(coerced or otherwise) should be unnecessary.